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The water lily and the cyber cow, landscape as a platform for Education for Sustainability in the higher education sector

Authors :
Helen Whitbread
Source :
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 16:22-28
Publication Year :
2015
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2015.

Abstract

As the higher education sector experiences the impact of globalisation and declining public funding, sustainability remains a compelling issue for educators to address at an institutional level and more broadly, for future societies. Within this context, this paper examines the role landscape can play as a platform for Education for Sustainability. Understanding the term Education for Sustainability to be holistic, systemic, connective and ecological rather than content specific, the paper outlines the genesis of landscape as a formal learning environment, and then through case studies reviews the efficacy of landscape as an agent for an integrated pedagogy towards sustainable literacy.

Details

ISSN :
18773435
Volume :
16
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........75abd9e3aa7e1c227a7cff4bf844f9ff
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2015.07.003